Can we stop with the flat cap CBO nonsense

Équipe: 2020-21 Lightning de Tampa Bay

Date de création initiale: 7 avr. 2020

Publié: 10 avr. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Tagging rules prevent a team from committing more money to the next season than they’re currently spending. A flat cap won’t prevent any team from icing a roster next year in compliance with the $81.5m existing cap. Will some teams struggle? Sure, but they’ll figure it out just like they do every year when teams are tight against the cap.

Here’s an example of probably the worst case scenario for probably the most cap strapped team. If they can’t find trading partners to move a player or 2 and their RFAs don’t take ridiculous discounts to stay, they trade them away for pure futures that don’t impact the cap and sign a bunch of league minimum players to fill out a 22 man roster.

There won’t be a CBO with a flat cap. Why would there be?

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